Atlas Copco Scholarship

This scholarship allows the winner to spend a week of work experience with Atlas Copco in Australia, followed by two weeks with Atlas Copco in Sweden.

Applications for the 2013 Atlas Copco Scholarship have now closed.

For the one week with Atlas Copco in Australia the winner of the scholarship will get a feel for Atlas Copco's mining equipment and will also experience first hand Atlas Copco's alliances with the Australian mining industry.

The first week in Sweden is spent at the production facilities in Orebro, with Atlas Copco's R&D marketing teams. After this total product overview, the winner will spend the second week visiting Swedish mine sites.

The scholarship is open only to AusIMM Student members studying at Australian, New Zealand and Papua New Guinean universities in the final two years of their Bachelor's Degree in technical courses of relevance to the minerals industry.

2013 Winner

The 2013 winner of the Atlas Copco Scholarship is Emma Beattie. Emma is currently studying a Bachelor of Geology at James Cook University. Emma will present a report on her experience at the 2014 New Leaders Conference.

2013 Finalists

The finalists for the 2013 Atlas Copco Scholarship were:

Lachlan Cumming, BEng, University of Wollongong
Jerard Koon, BEng and BSci, Monash University
Ewen Mills, BEng University of Queensland
Michael Minett BEng (Mining), University of New South Wales

Past Winners

2012: Christopher Brunero Bachelor Engineering (Mining and Environmental) (Hons) (Deans Scholar) (International Studies Minor), University of Wollongong. Christopher will present a report on his experience at the 2013 New Leaders Conference.
2011: Kathryn Serjeantson (Mining Engineering), University of New South Wales. Here is Kathryn’s paper from the 2012 New Leaders’ Conference.
2010: Nathan Campbell (Mining Engineering), Curtin University (WASM). Here is Nathan's abstract from the 2011 New Leaders’ Conference.
2009: Michael Webb-Martin (Mining Engineering and Finance), Curtin University (WASM). Here is Michael’s paper from the 2010 New Leaders’ Conference.
2008: Kiri Bunker (Mining Engineering), University of New South Wales. Here is Kiri’s paper from the 2009 New Leaders’ Conference.
2007: Megan Clasberg (Mining Engineering), University of New South Wales. Here is Megan’s paper from the 2008 New Leaders’ Conference.
2006: Jack MacDiarmid (Mining Engineering), University of Queensland. Here is Jack’s paper from the 2007 New Leaders’ Conference.

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